A "Horn of Plenty" : A Harvest of Work

We began the week celebrating Veteran's with a school program. On Tuesday, we had an opportunity to go off campus to see a play called, "Freckleface Strawberry." Which was totally awesome, the kids loved it! Interestingly enough our Basal story in our reading book this week was about a class of children working together to write a play called, "The Farmer in the Hat." That was a total coincidence and was great for background building for understanding the story. The rest of the week the students continued to work on their animal diorama projects. Today we squeezed in a little Thanksgiving with some cornucopia activities. Oh yes, and a visit from a corn snake that I found while watering plants at home. Our fluency story this week was called, "Our Pet Snake." So many connections, so little time...

 

Making cards for Veteran's

 

Cracker Trail Elementary's Veteran's Day Program

 

Several of our students had special parts in the ceremony.

 

 

Our very own George Washington

 

Pledging the flag

 

One student dressed for the occasion 

 

Honoring Veterans

Field Trip

 
After our field trip to see the play, "Freckleface Strawberry," we made our own Freckleface Strawberry characters and wrote about a time we felt like Freckleface Strawberry. You see, Freckleface Strawberry was a little red-headed girl who everyone made fun of because her body was covered in freckles. Her feelings become hurt. She tried everything she could think of to get rid of her freckles and when that didn't work she covered them up. Eventually, she learns her freckles make her special and her friends embrace her for who she is. It was a heartwarming story.

 

 

Friday Cooking

 

(Oops, forgot to put on our chef hats today!) Probably a good thing since we were doing art at the same time. There was paint and glue everywhere.

 

We made mini cornucopias by wrapping Pillsbury breadstick dough around a sugar cone.

 

Before you put the cornucopias in the oven you sprinkle them with cinnamon sugar. Next you bake them at 375 degrees for 14 minutes. Then you remove them from the oven and allow the cornucopias to cool. While they cool you mix up Chex mix, M&M's, and candy corn to fill the cornucopias.

 

Last you serve the cornucopias up to your friends and enjoy!

A MASTERPIECE!

 

I read the class a chapter from this book called, "Tiger." It's a story about a little girl who makes a mosaic tiger out of bean seeds. I adapted the idea to Thanksgiving.

 

While the students waited for the cornucopias to bake they made cornucopia mosaics out of beans and popcorn.

 

Definitely a two day project...

In between seed gluing, there was animal painting. (See our animal project post for more pictures and the complete story.)

 

Friday Finale!

 

...as if baking cornucopias, making mosaic cornucopias and painting clay animals wasn't enough to cram into a two hour block, there was snake petting in the science center. Don't worry, we already devoured our cornucopias. This event took place right before we went home.